The population of Deschutes county is estimated at 180,675. In 2017 there were 1,869 births and 1,478 deaths in Deschutes county. Deschutes county has 31,707 housing units that are owned with a mortgage or a loan, 10,453 that are owned free and clear and 21,930 that are renter occupied.

  The good residents of Deschutes County filed 91,090 federal tax returns in 2017. This amount represents 4.8% of all Oregon filings and 0.061% of the entire nation. Deschutes had a combined total federal tax liability of $1,002,066,000 on earned income of $6,579,398,000. Other notable statistics from Deschutes County were 4,550 unemployment claims which collected a total of $20,669,000 and 30,170 charitable contributions valued at $134,049,000. 33,720 filings from Deschutes County paid a combined total of $144,502,000 in property taxes and 28,440 filings paid $254,423,000 on mortgage interest costs.

  In 2010 Deschutes county had 146 religious congregations with an estimated 40,314 members.
33.7% of the Deschutes population has a college level Bachelors degree or higher. 6.5% have less than a highschool diploma level education.

Approximately 50% of Deschutes County voted in the presidential election of 2016. This represents an increase from the 2012 election by 13,143 votes.
At $65,506 the median income is 109.0% of the Oregon average. An estimated 3,937 people claimed to be unemployed last year in Deschutes, the equivalant of around 4.2% of the county population. This represents a decrease in the level of unemployment from the previous year's value of 4.8%.

Top 15 Industries in Deschutes County.
Total # Employed	Industry Job Type
9,398	Health care and social assistance
9,365	Retail trade
7,635	Accommodation and food services
5,758	Food services and drinking places
5,222	Restaurants and other eating places
3,690	Ambulatory health care services
3,672	Manufacturing
3,326	Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
3,138	Administrative and support services
2,868	Full-service restaurants
2,631	Professional, scientific, and technical services
2,206	Information
2,191	General merchandise stores
1,910	Finance and insurance
1,877	Accommodation

In 2018 the average price reduction was 2.72% in Deschutes County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 97707, 97756, 97702, 97703 and 97759).

In 2018 12.81% of listings in Deschutes County (averaging across 7 zip codes a sample of which are; 97707, 97701, 97703, 97702 and 97739) dropped their price.

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